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Moms clipped & saved! Newspapers we now miss. 75 year old sports.

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

newpaper clippings

Clippings!! Note the dates....1953, 1955....a long time ago!!

I discovered these tucked into my late hubby's graduation certificate.  It made me think of how we will probably have no more of these old treasures because newspapers are not prevalent like they were back then.  Moms always read the paper and clipped things that interested them and definitely anything about the kids was saved.  My husband, Rodger Duncan, apparently did well in sports in Searcy High School.

The Searcy Citizen came regularly to the homes of most folks and sports news was included.  Looking back on these I can see they named him Dude Duncan in at least one article, spelled his last name Dunkin and always misspelled his first name.  But that didn't matter. He was in the news!!

I have many, many clippings in my inventory just as other moms have.  Alas!  No more.  Newspapers have almost stopped being available to clip.  One of my favorite promises is that as long as I can afford it, I will keep subscribing to my Searcy Citizen and the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

  I believe in newspapers!!  And I love clippings!!

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Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

The article that amused and interested me so much was the Society Column. If you wanted to know who made a trip to Little Rock or other out of town places, this was the place to read it! You could read who had a birthday party, a party of any kind and so on.

There has been nothing like it in newspapers! I'll find one from my collection of Citizen articles and post it.

Sep 09, 2026 06:34 PM
Barbara S. Duncan

Don, I remember those columns.  Did they ask for permission to run those things or not?  Seems like an invasion of privacy and the way they put names of hospital patients in the paper was for sure a violation.  It made people feel like they needed to go visit the patients.  

Sep 10, 2026 04:51 AM
Kat Palmiotti
Kalispell, MT
Retired from real estate; active in life!

Good morning! You probably already have looked at this site, but old newspapers can be found on the Library of Congress site - see here for more info if you haven't already accessed this!

Sep 10, 2026 06:15 AM
Barbara S. Duncan

Kat, I did not know this.  Can you tell us all a little more about this and how best to use it?  Thanks!!

Sep 10, 2026 08:03 AM
Kat Palmiotti

I just saw your comment Barbara S. Duncan - sorry for the delay.

For some reason, that link isn't working well. If you type in "https://www.loc.gov/newspapers/" it should take you to the list. You can search for a location, for a newspaper, or for a topic nationwide. It's really cool. I used that for some research about what's happened in the past. You can see advertisements too which is fun. 

Sep 25, 2026 04:41 AM
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